Bibliograph

The corpse in Oozak's Pond, a Peter Shandy mystery, Charlotte MacLeod

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The corpse in Oozak's Pond, a Peter Shandy mystery, Charlotte MacLeod

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The corpse in Oozak's Pond

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Charlotte MacLeod

Sub title

a Peter Shandy mystery

Summary

On Groundhog Day, secrets surface alongside a waterlogged corpse The rural town of Balaclava greets Groundhog Day as an excuse for one last cold-weather fling. The students and faculty of the local agricultural college drink cocoa, throw snowballs, and, when the temperature allows, ice skate. Oozak's Pond is not quite frozen this year, though, and as the Groundhog Day celebrations reach their peak, the students see someone bobbing through the ice. The drowning victim is long past help, though; he's badly decomposed and dressed in an old-fashioned frock coat with a heavy rock in each pocket. First on the scene is Peter Shandy, horticulturalist and, when the college requires it, detective. But solving this nineteenth-century murder will take more than Shandy's knack for rutabagas. Relying on his wife's expertise in local history, the professor dives into a gilded-age mystery that cloaks secrets that remain potent enough to kill

Target audience

adult

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